Students stand in a line on one side of the space. On the other side of the space, place a pen or pencil and tape to the ground a sheet of paper with the letters A-Z listed down the side. Choose a topic that the students are familiar with. This will be the theme for all the ...
Over the course of a dozen words, students become fully engaged in word analysis. This game-like practice leads them easily to learning new words and teaches them the deep orthographic mapping that expands sight vocabularies. Think of all the word games we play as adults: crossw...
Perhaps nmwhiteport’s puzzle loving student would be less likely to produce ‘make a crossword’ having seen the above diagrams and noted howmakeinvolves “a nothing to a something” compared todowhich has a “something to a samething”? One clue to the second issue of the efficacy of co...